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charge

Meaning of “charge”

Sense 1: To command, enjoin, or solemnly require; a command or injunction. Sense 2: A duty, trust, care, oversight, or a person or thing entrusted. Sense 3: To impute or accuse; an accusation or liability imputed. Sense 4: To impose a burden, payment, or obligation; a cost or expense. Sense 5: To entrust with or make responsible for a person, duty, or burden.

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KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
102 occurrences94 verses29 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 26:5

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Psalms 35:11
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 35:11 · retained source text

False witnesses did rise vp they layd to my charge things that I knew not.

1611 marginal noteHeb. witnesses of wrong.

1611 marginal noteHeb. they asked me.

Psalms 91:11
For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 91:11 · retained source text

For hee shall giue his Angels charge ouer thee: to keepe thee in all thy wayes.

1611 marginal noteMatt. 4.6. luke 4.10.

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Historical definitions

To lay on, as a duty. To entrust to. To impute to. To censure; to accuse. To lay on, give or communicate, as an order, command or earnest request; to enjoin; to exhort. An order, injunction, mandate, command. That which is enjoined, committed, entrusted or delivered to another. Imputation in a bad sense; accusation. Cost; expense.

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